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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 12997956 times)

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #130425 on: January 31, 2018, 06:29:01 pm »

... mostly I just wonder why the doc was aware of your bandwidth consumption to begin with. Or I did, until I remembered you're in the hospital and probably nomming their line. Then it made sense!

Now I'm kinda' curious how often that's a discussion they have with inpatient folks. Also vaguely interested in what it takes to actually make them upset. There's obvious guesses, but they gotta' have some oddball stories tucked away somewhere. Hospitals always do, and one but hopes gerbils aren't involved that time.
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« Reply #130426 on: January 31, 2018, 07:03:12 pm »

The high speed line is for brain scans, not rocket-riding magical girls
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« Reply #130427 on: January 31, 2018, 07:54:13 pm »

Unless said brain scan is to find the rocket-riding magical girls hiding inside all of our minds.
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« Reply #130428 on: January 31, 2018, 08:04:44 pm »

The high speed line is for brain scans, not rocket-riding magical girls

Did you say rocket sled riding magical girls?
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« Reply #130429 on: January 31, 2018, 08:12:11 pm »

That counts as obscure? Wizardry VII, isn't it?
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« Reply #130430 on: January 31, 2018, 09:54:33 pm »

Everyone I mention it to has no idea about it. That makes it fairly obscure.
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« Reply #130431 on: January 31, 2018, 10:12:43 pm »

You say it’s called wizardry but there are no wizards in that party. Mages don’t count.

Also, why is there a priest if there’s a bishop?

Also also, it’s obviously Japan ‘cause there’s a ninja. And a samurai. You suck at anecdotal evidence.
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« Reply #130432 on: January 31, 2018, 10:14:09 pm »

Wizardry VII was fun, I feel like such a dumbass leaving the save I had going (plus my portrait edits) on my old laptop.
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« Reply #130433 on: January 31, 2018, 10:43:14 pm »

I just love that the Priest is named Frieth.  It looks good in fixed-width font.
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« Reply #130434 on: January 31, 2018, 10:46:19 pm »

The high speed line is for brain scans, not rocket-riding magical girls

Did you say rocket sled riding magical girls?
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Wizardry VII looks a lot like Might and Magic 3/4/5. Even the somewhat goofy names for party members.
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« Reply #130435 on: January 31, 2018, 10:58:53 pm »

Wizardry, The Bards Tale, and Might And Magic were the Big Three in first-person turn-based dungeon crawlers back in the day. The Bard's Tale series died a quiet and mostly-unlamented death after the third game, while the other two continued to compete until M&M started to suck and Wizardry moved to Japan.
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« Reply #130436 on: January 31, 2018, 11:04:34 pm »

It's funny that The Bard's Tale was supposed to be called "Tales of the Unknown, volume 1: The Bard's Tale". e.g. it was only meant to be the subtitle for the first game, not the actual name of the series. So the plan was probably that any sequels would be like "tales of the unknown, volume 2: The Knight's tale" etc etc.

But then everyone just shortened that to "The Bard's Tale" so they stuck with that for marketing reasons.
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« Reply #130437 on: January 31, 2018, 11:44:22 pm »

I was kinda sad to see Sirtech (the people that made the wizardry series) go poof after wiz8.

while it was a bit behind the times in technology and eyecandy for the era it came out, it is a pretty solid game. I've been playing it on my converted chromebook to  my great personal enjoyment. (the GOG version does well with WINE)

I heard that there was a "wizardry online" that came out recently, but I stay away from MMORPGs.
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« Reply #130438 on: January 31, 2018, 11:49:15 pm »

Oh god, Vegans are going Antifa in Australia and storming restaurants to shame the meat eaters, with a promise to ramp it up until they stop all the bad people eating

http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/im-not-going-to-stop-vegan-activist-leader-vows-to-ramp-up-restaurant-disruptions/news-story/6fc20ba67be81a200b633703faa9e407

btw. this is the place they stormed:

http://www.raresteakhouse.com.au/

Never heard of it before, I'm not a steakhouse person but now I'm hungry for steak and mashed potatoes from them. Streissand effect in full force.
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« Reply #130439 on: January 31, 2018, 11:49:24 pm »

Wizardry's not dead. Wizardry 8 was the last Sirtech game, but there's been something like forty Wizardry games made in Japan, although only 4 (Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land, Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls, Wizardry Online and Wizrogue: Labyrinth of Wizardry) have English releases. There's probably fan translations for at least some of the rest.
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